einstein

Robots

Robot Einstein Still Learning To Smile

10:16AM Nick Broughall | The only thing creepier than robots gaining the power to alter their facial expressions to demonstrate emotions is when the robot in question happens to be modelled on noted genius Albert Einstein. More »
Robots

Mad Roboticist Re-Creates Einstein’s Head, This Time With More Feeling

2:00PM Wilson Rothman | David Hanson, the roboticist who brought us the creepy cybernetic substitute son Zeno, is now offering an empathetic smiling Einstein bot for our general horrification. More »
Science

Supercomputers Corroborate Einstein’s e=mc2 After 103 Years

9:56AM Jesus Diaz | Believe it or not, but it has taken 103 years and the combined power of various of the world’s top supercomputers to prove Eintein’s biggest equation right, resolving e=mc2 at the scale of sub-atomic particles. The feat has been achieved by a team of French, German, and Hungarian physicists led by Laurent Lellouch at the Centre for Theoretical Physics in France, and has finally answered a question that has puzzled scientists for decades: The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Atom Mass! More »
Gadgets

Albert Einstein Wristwatch for Sale, Measures Time Relatively Well

4:00AM Jesus Diaz | Albert Einstein’s watch is for sale. It will be auctioned on October 16, just in time for you to count the remaining hours before they find God’s Particle or destroy the Galaxy at CERN. How do you know this 1930s Longines is actually Mr. Einstein’s watch? By looking at its back. More »

Einstein Wrong, Form a Queue for Time Travel

7:44PM Gizmodo US Edition | So, it turns out that maybe Einstein was wrong about that whole relativity thing. A couple of German physicists claim that they’ve broken the speed of light (with a photon, not a rocket, disappointingly). What this means is that time travel, instantaneous traveling between distant locations and really fast download speeds could all be possible. More »